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Romanticism in 45 objects | selected works

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Romantic Revolutions
A ha'penny-worth of sedition, 1796
Harlequin's Invasion, 1803
The Toussaint Timepiece, c.1804
The Junot-Wellington Watch, 1807
The Cadiz Bomb, 1816
Kościuszko’s Mound, 1820-23
Garibaldi's Cabin, 1849
The Bersagliere student's goodbye, 1848
A map of republican Europe, 1854
Romantic Selves
William Cowper’s pocket-watch, c.1780s
A Claude glass, c. 1780s
The Temple of Nature, 1795
Fonthill Abbey, pre-1825
Rousseau's trapdoor, 1760s
Journal, 1800
A Commonplace Book, c. 1820s
Album amicorum, 1815 onwards
Erdélyi’s travelling-box, mid 1840s
Romantic Worlds
The volcanic fissure at Lakagígar, 1783-4
A Mourning Dress from Tahiti, c. 1770
Tippoo's Tiger, 1800
Chateaubriand's Cedar, 1807
A French Clock, early 1800s
Soane's Sarcophagus, 1824
A Moorish Pavilion, c. 1820
The Long Gallery, The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, 1820s
Playbill for a Christmas Entertainment, 1826
Romantic Wonders
Stonehenge, J.M.W.Turner, 1827-8
The Selborne Yew, 1789
Mount Vesuvius, c. 1771
Falun Mine, date unknown
Mont Blanc
A Cloud, detail from a painting by John Constable, 1821
Humphrey Davy's Eudiometer, 1800
Laennec's Stethoscope, 1819
Herschel's telescope, 1789
Romantic Remains
Ossian's Hall, 1760s
William Cowper's tea-caddy, 1800
Beethoven's ear-trumpets, 1813
Fragment of a letter in Jane Austen’s hand, 1814
An engagement ring, 1819
Byron's autograph, 1816
Sir Walter Scott's slippers, 1830
Thomas Moore's harp, 1821
The Shelley Memorial, 1893